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The Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development 2021 calls for collective action to address both the short-term collapse in resources of developing countries as well as long-term strategies to build back better following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.
This book covers multifaceted problems and their possible solutions in sustainable investing. Written by experts in the field from academia and industry, the book includes three main topics. The general problems of sustainable investing are addressed in Part 1. They include the discussion of the concept of double materiality, current ESG legal framework and its specifics for private equity, the reviews of the sustainable investment indexes and funds, as well as the machine learning techniques for deriving and analysing the ESG ratings.Part 2 is devoted to the climate change. It covers net-zero portfolios being the means of reducing the investment carbon footprint, estimation of the Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, venture investments in carbon dioxide removal technologies, and an optimization problem of fuel production in carbon trading.Finally, Part 3 describes several sustainable investing strategies based on including sustainability indices and factors into the portfolio choice framework. It also introduces new portfolio performance measures relevant for sustainable investing.
Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals explores the complex relationships between the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 United Nations Member States in 2015. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the interconnections between the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and the five pillars of the SDGs: peace, people, planet, prosperity, and partnerships. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industry 4.0, integrating digital technologies into supply chain management (SCM) presents opportunities and challenges. While Industry 4.0 promises increased efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness, its impact on sustainability within SCM remains a pressing concern. Existing literature often needs to look more into the holistic integration of Industry 4.0 technologies with sustainable practices in SCM, leaving a critical gap in understanding and implementation. This gap not only inhibits the realization of sustainable performance but also hinders firms from aligning with global sustainability agendas such as the United Nations Sustainable Developme...
Governments and providers of development co-operation increasingly use Sustainable Development Goal indicators to guide their policies and practices. The close examination of three large recipients of development co-operation: Ethiopia, Kenya and Myanmar across the sectors of Education, Sanitation and Energy reveals four inter-related challenges in using SDG indicators at country level.
Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.
This volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from across the region. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".